Sviatočné chvíle rodov Hontu a Novohradu
The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his birth and death anniversaries. And alongside how his family spends a few days at the village keeping his traditions alive.
A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.
The millennia-old myth and tradition of St. Lucy's fire told through the eyes of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.
A short film about traditional crafts and culture that can still be found in the Wallachian mountains today.
Folk architecture, costumes, work, customs and traditions, dances, and other expressions of traditional life in Slovak villages.
Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for future generations. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song and local stories that vary from region to region in his film The Eternal Song. The short documentary presents merry-making in Slovak and Czech regions that are changing with the coming modernization and transformation of musical records.
An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.
Velikonoce na Slovácku
La notte dei Cucibocca
O Tardo
Jízda králů
A folklóre film about a Strakonice ensemble performing folk songs and dances from Prácheňsko under the baton of the local teacher Josef Režný, a passionate collector of folk literature and songs. The movie draws attention to the cultural importance of the region as the land of Strakonice bagpipers and the birthplace of František Ladislav Čelakovský.
Estráda
A collection of seven little stories about Niger and its Sahara desert from the illustrated book by Hideko Fukuda & Masanori Inui.
In a remote area of northern Spain, the wind has a name: Tramuntana. Tramuntana takes what it wants—clothes, trees, boats, and the people of the landscape who live with the endless threat of being carried away by its force. This film is a lyrical portrait of this furious wind, woven from the stories passed down by local villagers.
The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre performances for the locals.
Výtvarné umenie ľudu
Valašský soubor Jasenka
A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.